What do you do when you feel overwhelmed, perhaps after experiencing a traumatic event or receiving bad news?

Like the sacred trust a parent bears in raising a child to the light, the preacher bears the holy responsibility to bring God’s word to the assembly. Those who embrace this ministry know full well the heaviness of the task, as well as its astonishing sweetness.

I’m a linear thinker who values efficient routes and measurable progress—a rule-follower, who likes clear direction. Not the type to intuit her way through a labyrinth.

Bryan never thought of himself as a spiritual person. He went to church once in a while, especially on Christmas and Easter and during Lent, but he never thought about it much. Now he had come to know the truth about himself and had come to understand that the truth was from God.

In the fourth century a lot of people in the Christian world thought the priest Arius had a pretty good take on the Trinity. He said that God came before his Word, so there was a time when Jesus was not.

Let us call on the name of the Lord and ask forgiveness for our sins.

The world’s your ship, not your home.